Social protection model impossible with our theft and wastage

The elderly and people living with disability receive their stipend under the national government cash transfer programme in Kisii town, July 14, 2021. [Sammy Omingo, Standard]

A couple of weeks ago, I argued a case of the risk of creating a welfare state based on the lofty promises of the leading presidential aspirants. At the centre of that article was the question of whether the country has the fiscal space to run the programmes as they are being proposed.